As part of the current broadcast agreement between Major League Soccer and its network partners,[1]ESPN Networks and
Fox Sports each contracted to broadcast 34 weekly matches in an assigned broadcast window. In addition to the weekly broadcast window, each broadcast group gained the right to transmit their broadcasts on their respective digital broadcast service.[1]

Additionally,
ESPN Networks was granted the right to develop an
over-the-top content (OTT) service consisting of all out-of-market broadcasts of any MLS match not part of the MLS Soccer Sunday broadcasts nor those of Viernes de Fútbol, the Friday evening presentation of MLS on the networks of
Univision.[1] Although the service was intended to begin with the 2015 MLS season in the first year of the new agreement,
ESPN decided it could not logistically offer the service that year and MLS continued to offer its
MLS Live digital service as it had previous seasons.[2]